Juba tanker explosion

The Juba tanker explosion was a tank truck explosion that occurred 17 September 2015 in a suburb of Juba, the capital of South Sudan. It killed as estimated 176 people, most casualties coming from the crowd that had converged on the scene of the leaking tanker. The Red Cross dispatched aid to the suburb of Maridi after the incident.[1][2]

References
  1. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/world/africa/south-sudan-fuel-tanker-explosion.html NYT
  2. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34282520 BBC
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